Friday, 21 September 2018, 2:00 pm Press Release: Scape Public Art
World renowned artwork returns to the
city SCAPE brings locally produced
world-class artwork home to the city for the
Season
Nathan Pohio, Raise the anchor,
unfurl the sails, set course for the centre of an ever
setting sun!, 2015. Little Hagley Park. (Photomontage of
artwork in situ). Image courtesy of the artist and Jonathan
Smart Gallery.
Ōtautahi artist Nathan Pohio’s
celebrated large-scale artwork will return to Christchurch
in time for opening celebrations of SCAPE Public Art Season
2018, Our Braided Future (6 October – 17 November
2018).
A critically acclaimed presentation, Raise the
anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an
ever setting sun! was commissioned and produced by SCAPE
Public Art for SCAPE 8 2015. Illuminated at a grand scale
and a proportion approximating Panavision, the 110-year-old
image reads like a billboard for the latest blockbuster. The
photograph is of Lord Plunket in his early motor car
visiting Māori leaders at the Tuahiwi Marae north of
Christchurch that was taken for the Canterbury Times
in May
1905.
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